Poisonous Foodgrain: Wheat Mixed with Lolium Temulentum
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In the March issue of this journal there appeared under 'Medical News' (p. 148; an abstract from an article by Brinton) an account of an epidemic at Aden caused by the seed of Lolium temulentum, a weed which grows in wheat fields. The wheat was brought from Abyssinia and milled locally by machinery. The consumption of the product made the inhabitants go down with symptoms of acute intoxication. For 13 months from October 1942 the population suffered intermittently. Some 450 persons suffered. From ^ hour to 2 hours after taking food made from this grain a man became dizzy and developed headache, generalized tremors, lassitude, slurred speech and staggering gaitNausea, abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhoea
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